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every tka master i see has no armor on,,,A tka master with armor would be a freakin walkin tank,,im a

master commando with full suit of 46% uncumbrience sliced and i die pretty dang hard, but a tka

master,,dang

bigjimmy master commando sunrunner

This is not really true. There are a lot of TKs in my guild, and during the whole leaving process none of us ever used armor. But once we reached master, we all put the armor on. A few things have changed that makes this useful. Before, it was important to have your stats regenerating, so you could do specials, now its not as important. Couple of things now with a KD timer you can only do this once every 30 seconds, so no need to worry about that move anymore (was 200+ ham without VKs) its only used once a battle. We just had a damage increase for TKs across the board, we we can do alot more strait up tanking, without the need of specials.

Another note, you said every TK master you see has no armor, question is this in battle, for me and my friends that is the only time we put it on, if you see me walking around you will not see me wearing armor, I always wear cloths, and only put armor on right before battle.

In a group there is no reason not to wear armor, if a TK is not, he is only hurting himself. Soloing you can do some mixing up, maybe only wear a helmet, and such. Armor has changed recently, the ham cost are not as much as they once where.

So back to your other point, a TK Master with armor is a freakin walking tank, how I know this, cause I am.

Armor as I understand it lowers the vital pools when worn. So while it does
offer some protection it probably takes away more than it gives. But, I don't
wear it, so I don't know for certain. Only what I have read on the site and
in the manual about wearing armor.

I guess for unarmed combat it would be useful. But I would like to see specially
crafted armor just for unarmed combatants. I mean a ranged combatant has no need
for really strong armor since they do their fighting from a distance. At the very
least they would need impact resistance.

But us Tera Kasi Students and Masters (as well as Pikemen) need the extra
padding to protect against close up encounters. Since impact up close is likely to cause
far more damage than from a distance, I would think special close-impact armor for unarmed would be great.

Eece Ah'Fey
Bothan Tera Kasi/Pikeman [Corbantis]

Ok, as it stands, Unarmed toughness is very good, its almost like a ranged person wearing a suit of composite armor But on my TKA i wear a suit of composite, especially since im a commando as well. You do stay alive longer. It does not lower vital pools, but it lowers secondary stats so you do not regen as well and you use more HAM with your specials. Ive made macros to remove my armor and do a special move, but i do not use specials as much anymore, only reason im keeping teras kasi is for the meditate tree and because unarmed toughness is great. Do flame single 2 and remove the wep, you go from taking 200 damage to like 30 damage per hit.

oh, and KD for mecosts 96 ham without knucklers or armor on, all you need to do is make a macro to remove the knucklers and armor, do the move, pause a second and wear the armor and weapon again